OPTIONAL PROTOCOL
OPTIONAL PROTOCOL
The United Nations has applied the upcoming availability of a new human rights instruments established by the optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and cultural rights. Some of the important features of the protocol are as follows :
- For the first time, this complaint mechanism instrument will allow victims to file complaints at the international level about violations of their economic, social and cultural rights, placing those rights on equal footing with all other human rights.
- It will allow individuals or groups to file a complaint with the UN, if their rights- such as inadequate to access to food, housing and work - are violated by member state that is party to the protocol.
- The protocol will provide an important platform to expose abuses linked to povetry, discrimination and neglect, which up until now victims have had to endure without any possible resource at the international level.
- It will provide a way for individuals, who may otherwise be isolated and powerless, to make the international community aware of their situation.
The Protocol, adopted during the General assembly's December 2008 meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, opened for signature the following year.
On 5th February, 2013 Uruguay became the 10th member state to ratify the protocol, thereby enabling it to enter into force in three months time, on 5th May, 2013. Argentina, Bilivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, portugal, slovakia and spain have also ratified it.
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